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<span id="Passing-Options-to-the-Assembler"></span><h3 class="section">3.14 Passing Options to the Assembler</h3>

<p>You can pass options to the assembler.
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<dd><span id="index-Wa"></span>
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<dt><code>-Wa,<var>option</var></code></dt>
<dd><p>Pass <var>option</var> as an option to the assembler.  If <var>option</var>
contains commas, it is split into multiple options at the commas.
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<dt><code>-Xassembler <var>option</var></code></dt>
<dd><p>Pass <var>option</var> as an option to the assembler.  You can use this to
supply system-specific assembler options that GCC does not
recognize.
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<p>If you want to pass an option that takes an argument, you must use
<samp>-Xassembler</samp> twice, once for the option and once for the argument.
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